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NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators proposed a significant clampdown on payday lenders and other high interest loans on Thursday, the first nationwide attempt to address an industry widely thought of as taking advantage of the poor and desperate....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Cincinnati Zoo said Thursday it will re-open its gorilla exhibit next week with a higher, reinforced barrier after a 3-year-old boy got into the enclosure, leading to the fatal shooting of a male gorilla....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Friends of a 19-year-old Indianapolis man say they don't believe he fatally shot three people over four nights in attacks authorities say were inspired by the horror movie "The Purge."...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The investigation into a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus took a more sinister turn Thursday when police announced they suspected the shooter earlier killed a woman in Minnesota then drove to Los Angeles to confront a professor he believed had stolen his work....
Prince's death from an overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl is another example of the national opioid epidemic driven by prescription painkillers....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller that is up to 50 times more potent than heroin, autopsy results released Thursday show....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday, ending an extraordinary public split between the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee and the nation's highest-ranking Republican office holder....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Latest on Hillary Clinton's speech on national security (all times local):...
Maher is the name of a project that Indian Sister Lucy Kurien of the Order of the Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod (SCC) began in 1997 to shelter exploited and destitute women and children, in Pune, in western India’s Maharashtra state. In the local Marathi language ‘maher’ means ‘mother’s home’ – a name that Sr. Lucy chose for her centre as a haven of hope, belonging and understanding. Sr. Lucy has received several honours and recognition for her works or mercy. Recently, on the occasion of this year’s International Women's Day, March 8, she was conferred the Nari Shakti Award for 2015 by Indian president Pranab Mukherjee, for her outstanding contribution to women’s empowerment.Last week, in the first part of a telephone interview with her, Sr. Lucy briefly spoke about the Nari Shakti Award, and went on to explain her work and how it began over 19 years ago. It so happened that a battered woman...
(Vatican Radio) The new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, has urged the International Labour Organisation to do more to tackle the “pressing issue of youth unemployment”.In a speech on Thursday to the 105th session of the International Labour Conference, the nuncio stressed that it is a moral obligation to create dignified and well-paying jobs for young people in particular. To do so, he said, requires coming up with “new, more inclusive and equitable economic models, aimed not at serving the few, but at benefiting ordinary people and society as a whole”.Warning of the ways in which advancing technology can reduce the value and dignity of workers, Archbishop Jurkovic reiterated that it is no longer sufficient to measure human progress in terms of economic growth and the accumulation of material wealth. Work, he said, “acquires its true character when it is decent and sustainable for workers, ...
